What are the responsibilities and job description for the CRD Developer position at CERES Group?
Position Overview
We are looking for a CRD (Charles River) developer to support our newly formed Multi-Asset Class Strategies team from an IT perspective. This is an exceptional opportunity to help support a new effort at the firm as part of a small entrepreneurial team. The effort will focus on all major global asset classes including, but not limited to Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities and Options/Volatility. The Contract Business Analyst reports to the IT Project Manager and is a member of the Information Technology team.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a CRD (Charles River) developer to support our newly formed Multi-Asset Class Strategies team from an IT perspective. This is an exceptional opportunity to help support a new effort at the firm as part of a small entrepreneurial team. The effort will focus on all major global asset classes including, but not limited to Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities and Options/Volatility. The Contract Business Analyst reports to the IT Project Manager and is a member of the Information Technology team.
Responsibilities
- Manage the delivery of order management system (Charles River) and integrating the system master and position data
- Work with the project team to perform bi-direction integration between accounting systems/providers and systems utilizing batch, real-time and web services
- Work with the team to design appropriate data models for strategic data stores in the area of Account Master, Broker / Custodian Master, and Position Master
- Participate in data analysis, quality checks and process controls
- Participate in sprint planning, enriching the user stories, and managing the backlog
- Ensure transparency throughout delivery utilizing Agile best practices such as Sprint Planning, Release and Sprint Burndown, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demos, and Retrospectives
- Mentor team members on Agile principals and best practices
- 5 years of experience in the asset management business, ideally with a buy-side multi-asset focus
- Recent experience managing and implementing multi-asset class front office solutions with the following security types: Equities, ETFs, Futures, Options, Structured Notes, FX, Total Return Swaps, Interest Rates Swaps, and Volatility Swaps
- Experience implementing and integrating middle and back office functions with Accounting systems/providers (SS&C GlobeOp / Advent Geneva preferred) and Performance systems for Total Return Performance and GIPS Composite information (BiSam preferred)
- 5 years of experience delivering software as part of an agile delivery team
- Experience with Agile PLM tools like Rally, Jira, and VersionOne (Jira Preferred)
- Ability to proactively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project data
- Strong knowledge of enterprise data management and business process modeling
- Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills